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Republic of Iceland
National name: Lydveldid Island
President: Ólafur Ragnar Grimsson (1996)
Prime Minister: David Oddsson (1991)
Area: 39,709 sq. mi. (103,000 sq. km)1
Population (1999 est.): 272,512 (average annual rate of natural increase: 0.79%); birth rate: 14.9/1000; infant mortality rate: 5.2/1000; density per sq. mi.: 7
Capital and largest city (1994 est.): Reykjavik, 103,036
Monetary unit: Icelandic króna
Language: Icelandic
Ethnicity/race: homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norwegians and Celts
Religions: Church of Iceland (Evangelical Lutheran) 96%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, none 1%.
Literacy rate: 100%
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (1998 est.): $6.06 billion; $22,400 per capita. Real growth rate: 5.1%. Inflation: 1.7%. Unemployment: 3%. Arable land: 0%. Agriculture: potatoes, turnips; cattle, sheep; fish. Labor force: 130,000 (1998 est.); manufacturing 12.9%, fishing and fish processing 11.8%, construction 10.7%, other services 59.5%, agriculture 5.1% (1996 est.). Industries: fish processing, aluminum smelting, ferrosilicon production, geothermal power, tourism. Natural resources: fish, hydropower, geothermal power, diatomite. Exports: $1.9 billion (f.o.b., 1998): fish and fish products, animal products, aluminum, diatomite and ferrosilicon. Imports: $2.4 billion (f.o.b., 1998): machinery and transportation equipment, petroleum products, foodstuffs, textiles. Major trading partners: EU (U.K., Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden), U.S.
